Overlap Checksheet

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Swarthmore College Office of the Registrar

Student Name:_________________________________ Grad. Year: ______________________

Current Date: ____________________ Share this information with your Academic Advisor.

If your plan of study includes one or more interdisciplinary major or minor, use this form to list the courses you have taken and plan to take, to demonstrate that you will not exceed the overlap constraints for minoring.

Required: Optional: Optional:

Major ______________________ Maj/Min ____________________ Minor ______________________

Honors? Y N Check only one: Honors? Y N

___Second Major (not Honors)

___ Minor

Honors? Y N

List Courses: List Courses: List Courses:

Eg: F'01 HIST 004A Colonial Latin Amer… Done? Eg: S'02 CPSC 021 Unix and C …….….. Done? Eg: F'01 BLST 091 Thesis ………………… Done?

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Overlap Rule:

Minors will include at least five credits, four of which may not overlap with the student's major or other minor. This overlap rule applies to any two entities taken at one time but not collectively to three entities taken together (i.e., it is a pair-wise not a global overlap rule). This means that a student who has a major in Medieval Studies, for example, and minors in English and Women's Studies, must meet the overlap rule in each possible pairing but not in the three taken together. In other words, one course can overlap between Medieval Studies and English and a different course can overlap between Medieval Studies and Women's Studies.

Exceptions: The overlap constraint is not applicable to courses that departmental majors or minors MUST take in other departments; e.g., Mathematics courses required for an Engineering major are not automatically excluded from a minor defined by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

For an Honors major who is also a double major, the overlap constraint does not apply to the relationship between the Honors minor and the second major since these will always be in the same field. Thus, an English Honors major who is a History Honors minor and also a History course major as part of a double major is not violating the constraint.